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What Happened in February 1743

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Feb 3 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
Feb 8 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth

1st Lord of Treasury

Feb 14 Henry Pelham becomes Britain's First Lord of Treasury

British Prime Minister Henry Pelham

Famous Birthdays

Feb 8 Louis d'Affry, French general, military governor of Switzerland and mayor of Freiburg, born in Freiburg im Üechtland, Switzerland (d. 1810)

Joseph Banks (1743-1820)

Feb 13 English botanist and naturalist who accompanied James Cook on board the Endeavour, born in London

Joseph Banks

Feb 19 (Ridolfo) Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer, who worked in the Spanish court, born in Lucca, Republic of Lucca (d. 1803)

Famous Deaths

Feb 1 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer, organist, and maestro di cappella (Basilica of San Marco. 1677-1743), dies at 85
Feb 7 Lodovico Giustini, Italian composer, dies at 57
Feb 18 Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)

What Happened in 1743

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